COILHOUSE is a love letter to alternative culture, written in an era when alternative culture no longer exists. Or DOES it? In any case, here at Coilhouse, we happily take cues from yesterday and tomorrow, from the mainstream and from the underground, to make our own way. We cover art, fashion, technology, music and film to convey the alternative culture that we are longing to live in, as opposed to the one that’s being sold or handed down to us.

In our premier issue, the stark android beauty created by Andy Julia for our cover is counterbalanced inside by his elegant portfolio of vintage-style nudes. There’s an exclusive 10-page showcase and interview with taxidermy sculptress Jessica Joslin. Also in Issue 01, Coilhouse travels to Ljubljana, Slovenia (literally! we actually went!) to interview Laibach, while singer Jarboe tells war stories from her career, post-Swans. Photographer Eugenio Recuenco contributes a lush 10-page portfolio and interview, while Clayton James Cubitt delivers a poignant, visceral spread (again, literally) on the topic of gender reassignment surgery and the pain of becoming. Renowned science fiction author Samuel R. Delany shares an exclusive excerpt from his forthcoming novel, From the Valley of the Nest of Spiders, while our first installment of “All Yesterday’s Parties” digs up forgotten party photos from eras long gone, starting with London’s Slimelight circa ’95. Fans of the What is Zo Wearing column will love Z’s fashion pictorial, in which she reconstructs a Galliano outfit on a budget. Pop-surrealist Travis Louie gives us a glimpse of his inner monster, and cult painter Saturno Butto has some medical fun at the expense of Catholics everywhere. All this, and much more –including supervillain how-to’s, Coilhouse paper dolls, interviews, fashion and art– await.

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